On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:13:29AM -0800, Scott Dagastino wrote: > Since the price of computer equipment (MB, HD, etcs) > are so inexpensive, I personaly would never run linux > off of a cd. You are limited to not being able to > confire the files like httpd and the log files or > .bash_profile. > > That is too limiting for any real practical use. Funny, but I've thought about doing exactly this for my firewall. Build a CD on a trusted machine with /bin, /usr, /etc. Boot the firewall from CD, and have a local disk for /var, or just syslog to another machine. Maybe some sort of intrusion detection to reboot the machine if needed. Another job for the to-do list...